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Don't take this the wrong way Charlie but your opinion of police and prosecutors in the UK comes across as the touching middle-class naivete of someone who has never been on the receiving end of the criminal justice system. I've...

Glad to see you're addressing some of the questions I had left over from the original Merchant Princes books in the next trilogy, but are you going to address where the world walker tech implanted in the Clan comes from/why...

on your points re a possible post-independence arrangemnt... 1. The obvious successor is Nicola Sturgeon. She's been demolishing the No representatives in the debates that have been held so far, she clearly has ambitions on the leadership as she initially...

So what you're suggesting as a driving force for Lovecraft is the idea that Asimov explored in Nightfall? I admit that I've never read the original short story, only the novel co-authored with Silverberg, but that's basically the premise of...

In certain types of acute psychosis, people can and do experience a zombie state. As someone with personal experience of this it is a, shall we say, somewhat interesting experience possessing no concept of self. It's interesting to note that...

As someone who has spent time in Edinburgh's medium security psychiatric unit owing to serious bipolar disorder which manifests in extreme mania before progressing on to acute psychosis, my only real problem with Rule 34 is that you appear to...

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Errrr.... What legitimate reason would an aide working in a policy unit have to retain material like this in his possession? I mean, yes, he might reasonably have been exposed to this stuff in briefings so that he knows what sort of material needs to be addressed, he might even need regular updates if the nature of the material is changing, but actually retaining the stuff??? Not one little bit convinced......

Yes / No / Maybe I can think of all sorts of "reasons" for having it, including the "guilty" one, & the others I've mentioned above. Simply forgot to delete those particular files? The current working directory for the ongoing investigation? "Legit" stuff (as in work) mis-filed? Whatever happens, it (again) shows the problem of "Strict Liability" - which was the point I was trying to make, of course....

And agian This guy has been around sibce the madwoman was in charge & some of that crew were (& a few still are) distinctly unsavoury types. Aitken, Sherman ("Giftzwerg") & "slimy Cecil Prick" (as Private eye called him) spring immediately to mind. But that's guilt-by-association, exactly the same as the daily Nazi is trying to smear one H Harman with....

It's better than that - there are specific exemptions for members of the security services in the UK laws against porn, including child porn. See for example, Section 1B of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37): (1)In proceedings for an offence under section 1(1)(a) of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, the defendant is not guilty of the offence if he proves that— .. (c)at the time of the offence charged he was a member of GCHQ, and it was necessary for him to make the photograph or pseudo-photograph for the exercise of any of...